What is Google Lunar X Prize‬‬ ? – The New Space Race

Lunar X Prize is a competition sponsored by Google to challenge and inspire innovators to develop low cost methods of robotic space exploration. Total prize for this competition is $30 Million. Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) is also referred as Moon 2.0.

The challenge is to land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, travel 500 meters, and transmit back HD video and images back to earth.

How to win the Google Lunar XPRIZE challenge ?

To win the Lunar XPRIZE money challenge, team must do the following 3 things successfully on moon surface:

1) Successfully place a spacecraft on the moon’s surface
2) Successfully landed spacecraft should travel at least 500 meters on the moon surface
3) Transmit high-definition video and images back to earth

Total price – $30 million

Grand prize: $20 million

Second place: $5 million

Bonus prizes: $5 million

To win the prize, team should prove that 90% of their mission costs were funded by private sources. Teams now have until the end of 2017 to launch.